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My Big Fat Greek Wedding

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My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)

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Reviews Counted:121

Fresh:91

Rotten:30

Average Rating:6.7/10

Consensus: Though it sometimes feels like a television sitcom, My Big Fat Greek Wedding is good-hearted and lovable.

Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: “Nice Greek girls are expected to do three things: Marry Greek boys, make Greek babies and feed everyone until the day we die.” Toula Portokalos Everyone in the Portokalos family worries about... “Nice Greek girls are expected to do three things: Marry Greek boys, make Greek babies and feed everyone until the day we die.” Toula Portokalos Everyone in the Portokalos family worries about Toula (NIA VARDALOS). Still unmarried at 30-years-old, she works at Dancing Zorba’s, the Greek restaurant owned by her parents, Gus (MICHAEL CONSTANTINE) and Maria (LAINIE KAZAN) and smells like garlic bread. Vowing that she’d rather stab herself in the eye with a red-hot poker than work in the restaurant for the rest of her life, Toula is ready for a change. Unfortunately, the rest of her family is not. After taking a job at her aunt’s travel agency, she falls in love with Ian Miller (JOHN CORBETT), a high school teacher who is tall, handsome and definitely not Greek. Toula isn’t sure which will be more upsetting to her old-fashioned father, that Ian is a Xeno (foreigner) or that he’s a vegetarian. But none of it matters once he asks her to marry him. Toula knows that if he can pass muster with her crazy relatives and get baptized in the Greek Orthodox Church...their big fat Greek wedding, including one powder blue limousine, two ice sculptures and ten bridesmaids in turquoise dresses, will be a piece of cake, five layers high with a plastic staircase and a fountain of champagne. -- © 2002 IFC Films [More]

Starring: Nia Vardalos, Louis Mandylor, Gia Carides, John Corbett

Starring: Nia Vardalos, Louis Mandylor, Gia Carides, John Corbett, Joey Fatone, Andrea Martin, Lainie Kazan, Bruce Gray

Director: Joel Zwick

Director: Joel Zwick
Screenwriter: Nia Vardalos
Producer: Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, Rita Wilson
Composer: Alexander Djanko, Chris Wilson
Studio: IFC Films

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You don't have to be Greek to enjoy My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and that's precisely the point of it.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
08/16/02
Peter Howell
Peter Howell
Toronto Star

Full of obvious humour and stereotyped characters, My Big Fat Greek Wedding is nonetheless delightful, mostly because the movie does not pretend to be anything it isn't.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
08/16/02
Liz Braun
Liz Braun
Jam! Movies

My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a very slim movie that succeeds on its own modest terms without pretense or apology. No wonder it's easy to like.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
08/16/02
Rick Groen
Rick Groen
Globe and Mail

This isn't a groundbreaking movie ... but its situations are so recognizable and universal that you don't need to be Greek to appreciate it.

Full Review Source: Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) | comment Comment
08/15/02
Bob Bloom
Bob Bloom
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

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Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | comment Comment
08/02/02
Guylaine Cadorette
Guylaine Cadorette
Hollywood.com

An embarrassment, a film so humiliating to everyone involved, it is shocking that protesters haven't come out of the woodwork to scream bloody murder.

Full Review Source: Film Blather | comment Comment
07/30/02
Eugene Novikov
Eugene Novikov
Film Blather

An alternately raucous and sappy ethnic sitcom...you'd be wise to send your regrets.

Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion | comment Comment
07/30/02
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

...manages — by virtue of its uncommon geniality — to convince us it’s about genuine human beings.

Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | comment Comment
07/26/02
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Out loud laughing, full of heart and humor and just wonderful feeling. Dare I say, a triumph!

Full Review Source: Cinerina | comment Comment
07/25/02
Karina Montgomery
Karina Montgomery
Cinerina

The movie is consistently funny without ever going over the top -- a rarity in movies.

Full Review Source: ReelViews | comment Comment
07/25/02
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews

The reliability of the genre doesn't excuse predictable jokes, pat fiascoes and so many stereotypes that one is tempted to alert the Greek anti-defamation league.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
07/20/02
Loren King
Loren King
Chicago Tribune

Wedding feels a bit anachronistic. Still, not every low-budget movie must be quirky or bleak, and a happy ending is no cinematic sin.

Full Review Source: USA Today | comment Comment
07/19/02
Claudia Puig
Claudia Puig
USA Today

Though likable, its stock brand of comedy makes “Meet The Parents” look like a magnum opus of comic achievement by comparison.

Full Review Source: Spectrum (St. George, Utah) | comment Comment
07/11/02
Bruce Bennett
Bruce Bennett
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

As a witness to several Greek-American weddings -- but, happily, a victim of none -- I can testify to the comparative accuracy of Ms. Vardalos' memories and insights.

Full Review Source: New York Observer | comment Comment
07/11/02
Andrew Sarris
Andrew Sarris
New York Observer

This romantic/comedy asks the question how much souvlaki can you take before indigestion sets in.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
07/02/02
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

With tiny little jokes and nary an original idea, this sappy ethnic sleeper proves that not only blockbusters pollute the summer movie pool.

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
06/28/02
Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor
Salon.com

This is a very funny, heartwarming film. It has fun with the quirks of family life, but it also treats the subject with fondness and respect.

Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope | comment Comment
06/25/02
Robert Roten
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope

Even if you can't pronounce "gyro" correctly, you'll appreciate much of Vardalos' humor, which transcends ethnic boundaries.

Full Review Source: Kalamazoo Gazette | comment Comment
06/18/02
James Sanford
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette
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Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
06/13/02
Arizona Republic
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Perhaps the makers of My Big Fat Greek Wedding subscribe to the Quentin Crisp theory of housekeeping %u2013 "After the first four years, the dust doesn't get any worse" %u2013 but this feels more like 70 years of dust, and badly in need of an airing out.

Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | comment Comment
06/11/02
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
 
 
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